Red Rover, Red Rover,

send China right over.

Ok, maybe that's not the best tag line for this blog, but I wanted to share some videos that the Navy released recently regarding a run-in one of its observation ships had with five Chinese vessels.

Basically, the incident occurred in international waters, and two of the five ships came within about 50 feet of the US ship. It appeared, among other things, that the Chinese were trying to disrupt the towed array that is part of the ship's surveillance equipment.

I posted them below in the sequence that they were labeled. *CAUTION* Some of the clips do have audio, and these are sailors. [I think the "announcer" is funny in Clip #3.] [Some brief language in Clips #5, 6, 8.]
#1 [below]

#2

#3

#4

#5

#6

#7

#8